With a new mandated family leave which took effect in New York state on January 1st, Northwell Health which is the largest healthcare provider in the state, turned to predictive cost modeling and benchmarking to avoid disrupting the care of its patient when their employees took time off.

UnitedHealth expects to have at least 150 million members in value-based coordinated care by 2025. CEO David Wichmann said that were not satisfied with rising cost of healthcare. He also evaluated the use of point-of-sale drug discounts and his support for universal healthcare.

With the recent policy announcement on prescription drugs by President Trump, it is obvious that these prescriptions for lower pharma costs contrasts with what most U.S health consumers/ voters want to see.

Apple acquires Beddit to help monitor and improve the health of its consumers. Beddit was bought to help monitor the sleeping patterns of its consumers by using a tracker which collects sleeping data of its users and uploads on the iPhone’s iOS app.

The fact that technology has outpaced policy in precision medicine has only burdened health systems and hospitals with responsibilities which include ethics, access and affordability. This is becoming a huge problem as implementing precision medicine on a broken health care system can only make things worse

Email attacks such as phishing and ransomware can be prevented in health systems by using the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance Standard (DRMAC) but research shows only 1.7 percent of large healthcare organizations successfully use them.

Location-based ads are being used by personal injury law firms to target patients when they enter emergency rooms. The trend has raised concerns among patients, government officials and health privacy experts.

Integris Health turned to an identity governance (IG) vendor to help it know and control what users had access to as well as ensuring that users had the right access to information. This was after they had failed several security audits

Geisinger Health system based in Pennsylvania plans to implement DNA sequencing into primary care in the nearest future as they believe that Americans are spending too much on medical bills and that DNA sequencing would decrease such medical expense a lot.